Analyze text statistics

What the text statistics dashboard does

This text statistics dashboard helps you inspect a passage by combining basic counts with word-frequency information, character categories, readability estimates, word-length summaries, and reading-time estimates. It accepts one optional text input, so it is suitable when you want a quick profile of pasted writing rather than a multi-document comparison.

The results can help you see how long a passage is, which normalized words occur most often, how many distinct normalized words it contains, and how its sentence and paragraph structure is distributed. Use the output as a set of descriptive measurements: it summarizes the text you provide, rather than explaining the topic or judging the writing.

How to analyze a passage

1. Prepare the passage you want to review. Copy the text into the tool's single text input. Leaving the input blank is also valid, because the field is optional.
2. Submit or run the analysis using the available control. The tool returns a result for omitted input, empty input, and nonempty text.
3. Start with the length section. For nonblank text, review the counts for whitespace-separated words, characters in the original text, characters after whitespace is removed, sentences, paragraphs, and lines.
4. Review word usage. The frequency analysis converts each whitespace-separated word to lowercase letters and digits before counting it. Check the highest-frequency list, which contains up to fifteen normalized words, along with the number of distinct normalized words.
5. Check character categories. The report separates letters, digits, whitespace, punctuation, uppercase letters, and lowercase letters as counts from the original text.
6. For a passage with more than five words, review the estimated readability score and its six-level label. The score is rounded and kept within the range from 0 through 100. For shorter text, do not treat the score as a produced readability estimate.
7. Finish with the word-length and time sections. For nonblank text, the report can include up to five distinct longest alphabetic word forms, rounded average word length, rounded average words per sentence, and minimum-one reading and speaking time estimates based on 200 and 130 words per minute.

How to read the results

Read the counts in context. A word count is based on whitespace-separated items, while the frequency list uses a normalized lowercase letters-and-digits form. That means the displayed frequency terms may differ from the original capitalization or punctuation. Character totals, by contrast, are reported from the original text, so whitespace and punctuation remain relevant to those categories.

Treat readability as an estimate with a specific eligibility condition: it is calculated only when the passage contains more than five words. The calculation uses a vowel-group heuristic, then rounds and assigns a label from score thresholds. It is not a substitute for editorial review. The reading and speaking figures are estimates based on fixed rates, and the tool reports a minimum of one for nonblank input.

For blank or whitespace-only input, the expected result is different: statistics are zero, the readability level is unavailable, word lists are empty, and estimated reading and speaking time are zero. Also, if several longest words have the same length, their order is not guaranteed, so do not use their displayed order as a ranking.

Worked example

A writer pastes “The draft is short. Revise it carefully today.” to check its structure and word usage before editing.

Paste the passage into the optional text field and run the analysis once.

The result includes length counts, character-category totals, a normalized word-frequency section, distinct-word information, readability details because the input has more than five words, longest-word and average-length summaries, and reading and speaking time estimates.

Limitations

• Readability is an estimate based on a vowel-group heuristic and applies only to text with more than five words.
• The order of longest words with equal length is not guaranteed.

Common errors

• If you expect a readability estimate from a passage of five or fewer words, the condition has not been met. Use more than five words before interpreting the score and label.

FAQ

What happens if I leave the text field empty?

Yes, when the input is blank or contains only whitespace, the tool returns zero statistics, an unavailable readability level, empty word lists, and zero estimated reading and speaking time.

When does the tool show a readability estimate?

Only when the passage has more than five words does the tool estimate readability and assign a six-level label; shorter passages do not produce that readability estimate.

How are the longest words selected?

The list contains up to five distinct longest alphabetic word forms, but the order of tied words with equal length is not guaranteed.